ASSOCIATED PRESS
A volunteer soldier attends a training outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27. Some volunteers signed up to join a Chechen unit that fights alongside the Ukrainian military. Fighters from Chechnya, the Russian republic in the North Caucasus, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, with pro-Kyiv volunteers loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic's drive for independence from Russia.